Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Welcome Kim McDermott

Take a cyber vacation. While I had been to Paris before I wrote
Hiding, I had never been to Monte Carlos or Breil sur Roya. How could I make
these locations authentic in my book? The answer is research, fun research. I
used travel brochures, tour websites, lots of photographs to read, visualize
and learn about the places that my characters would be traveling.

In the process, I got to “visit” exotic places. I learned, for
example, that Jacques Cousteau’s Marine Museum and Center are in Monte Carlos.
I learned how Grace Kelly was killed on the winding treacherous road to the
city. I learned that one of the popular gambling casinos was built to resemble
the Paris Opera House. It was a mini-vacation for me and for my readers when it
was worked into the book. In conclusion, authors, take your mini-vacation via
cyber space and recreate it for your fans.

Blurb:

Teresa Worthington escape her abusive boyfriend, Alex, and flees to Paris to pursue a dream career in art. Alone and wary

of men, she gradually makes friends and explores her new home. She is distraught to learn that Alex is still stalking her but is

determined to create the life she has always wanted.

Handsome, compassionate, and brave, Serge Gervais, a young Frenchman, slowly wins her trust. He shows her the sights of France and promises

to protect her from Alex. Teresa finds herself falling in love for the first time until the unspeakable happens. Alex tracks her down and forces her into the catacombs beneath the city. Will Serge find her in time to prevent Alex's vengeance?Bio

Excerpt:

Alex illuminated the crypt with his light, and Teresa tried to interpret what she saw: uneven walls, a doorway surrounded by orbs, a floor

littered with dried reeds. No, they weren't reeds; they were bones. And the orbs were skulls? The catacombs! Her heart pounded in her chest like a jack hammer. Alex had withdrawn his knife. The blade glittered in the dim light of the torch which cast luminous shadows on the walls. What better place to

kill someone? What was another set of bones among the many? Lord, as you helped the Christians long ago who secretly met in catacombs, help me.

She won the Blue Ridge Christian
Writer’s award in l987. Her first book, All
Work, All

Play published by Marco. She
has two children’s books, a chapter book aimed at

elementary age children entitled The
Underwear Tree and a picture book, Les Petits

Gardes. With Margie Clary,
she co-authored South Carolina Lighthouses

published by Arcadia Publishing.

She has published two romance novels
with The Wild Rose Press: Hiding,
a suspense thriller that won the Daphne
Du Maurier Kiss of Death Contest from NRA and Abbey’s Tale, historical
romance set in New England.

10 comments:

I LOVE arm chair traveling. There are so many places in this world I'll never get to visit in person. Doing research for my own books or reading others' allows me to travel without leaving the comfort of my living room. Not to mention I don't have to wait in all of those TSA lines! :)

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